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October 31, 1991

A U.S. HOUSE committee has said it is investigating whether Toyota Motor Sales' top executives knew about alleged import violations by Southeast Toyota Distributors Inc., a company sued earlier this year by Longwood Toyota Inc. The probe stems from the Longwood suit and about a dozen others alleging that Southeast forced auto dealers to falsify vehicle sales reports to alter import counts. Some of the suits also accuse Southeast of forcing dealers to contribute to an import auto dealers' political action committee or have cars withheld. Toyota has denied the allegations. Southeast Toyota lawyers also have repeatedly denied the charges.